For Get Me Not, Charming c. Early 20th C. Folk Art Spruce Gum Box bedside vase Paper: 8" x 10"

Paper: 8" x 10"

too--just wonderful

13 3/4 l x 5 w x 11 1/8" t

With a super warm patina to pine and carefully hand-carved stars highlighted with red paint

strap long enough to wear cross-body

For Get Me Not, Charming c. Early 20th C. Folk Art Spruce Gum Box bedside vase Paper: 8" x 10"Found in Tennessee but probably Maine in origin, this is a c. early 20th century book shaped spruce gum box. (More below re. spruce gum boxes). You know I love a book shaped anything, and love tokens of all sorts, and naive drawings too, and this is all rolled into one, with a horseshoe and flowers and wonderful spelling of "For get," too! Associated with logging and lumbering activities, spruce gum boxes, also known as gum books, were usually carved